"A Committee of Correspondence"

02 October 2010

Rick Sanchez - I won't miss you.

So, Sanchez discovered that a lot of people in the media are Jewish. This was news to him? My comment to him would be ---- When did you learn this?

I once allowed myself to be persuaded to appear on this man's afternoon show. Unresolved ego must have been the reason. The experience was so bad that I told his producer not to bother me again. Sanchez appeared to me to be just plain stupid. We don't need stupid people pandering to other stupids on CNN. There are already too many on all networks.

Jon Stewart (noble scion of the house of Scottish kings) on the other hand is anything but stupid. He is witty, humane, short, and very able to laugh at things like Jewish presence in the media, etc. His program is one of the bright spots of my night (or day).

Is Rick Sanchez a minority? What kind of minority would that be? He is whiter than I am. (I sunburn easily)

Just another victim of the Jewish counter-pogrom. Can no one even mention the Jews without being fired? Really.

Sanchez, Thomas and Nasr, all fired for stupid, uninformed remarks. 2/3 from CNN, hmmmm. And these guys get paid to help us decipher world events. Of course, maybe it is a Jewish conspiracy because Sanchez didn't get fired for not being able to identify Hawaii on a map, or for thinking that volcanoes are only active in hot climates.....I do think he was right about the global warming. He says the science is settled.

Since Sanchez is a fluent Spanish speaker, maybe he can obtain a job at the Spanish language media giant Univision?
Cancel that thought, Univision is owned by Haim Saban.

On a more serious note, Sanchez has a point about Jewish liberals like John Stewart. Jews are now part of the elite, the ruling class. While David Halberstam excoriated our former WASP elite in his book "The Best and Brightest", any discussion of the new Jewish elite is proscribed.

This new elite brought us Iraq and credit default swaps, but any discussion of this will not be aired in the MSM.

Jon Stewart and his "type" did not bring us the Iraq, credit default swaps and the like. Yes, he's Jewish. Yes, he's famous. And yes, he's powerful. But he's one of the centrist moderates. Furthermore, there are probably more Jewish moderates than there are Jewish hardliners.

In general, the bell curve holds for human beings for pretty much all characteristics. (Not the book, which had a flawed understanding, but the phenonmenon itself, which dictates a standard distribution.) The same proportion of good and bad people exists in any population. It is true that there are Jewish elites, but that's just part of the distribution. There are also Christian elites and Muslim elites, for example, as Jon Stewart has so often discussed, Fox is 7% owned by a Muslim.

Someone up above says "so, since Sanchez is a fluent Spanish speaker." No, he isn't. I once watched him wield his spanish on air, in classic bull and china shop fashion, leaving the person he was talking to (an actual speaker of spanish, rather than a "truth" speaker of spanish) all at sea.

I could be wrong, but I suspect CNN had already given him notice before he made the nasty crack about management. Not a career move, as they say. On the other hand, maybe he really is that dumb. If so, he's a good example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect (overly-confident dimwits)

Hi Pat,
Sanchez's unintended role as a comic is being under appreciated here.
Also, I would disagree with R Whitman. Stuart and Colbert are entertainers, and news people. Many young adults only get there news from them - better than CNN in my view.
Russ

Amazing I thought, and somewhat disturbing, that Sunday Howard Kurtz (CNN's Reliable Sources) had a segment on the Sanchez firing with guests who were former colleagues of Sanchez. The segment was devoted to running Sanchez down, including showing footage of some of his gaffes and howlers. I say this was amazing because this was on the network where up to a mere 48 hours previously Sanchez had two shows per day. It didn't help that Kurtz is also a Jew, if CNN was trying to show that the people in charge are not the people in charge when they kick you out for saying they are the people in charge. Kurtz concluded dismissively, "He's radioactive now." Yep, he made sure of that.

IMO the best quality of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report is that they flag bullshit, and don't engage for the sort of hysterical partisanship you find on MSNBC or FOX. Certainly Colbert is hysterically partisan, but as a satirist.

On the other hand, some of the stuff Rachel Maddow does, while presented in an undeniably partisan way, is decent reporting. Olbermann on the other hand ...

FOX at times does some good reporting, usually when they are not being partisan, and has some decent people, like Shepard Smith, but the mighty drumbeat of their general highly partisan infotainment drowns that out, one only needs to think of Glenn Beck ... yikes.

In contrast, Sanchez is just a clown without redeeming qualities for his job. Good riddance. But I have trust that CNN domestically will remain atrocious even without his able help.

To see what I mean I strongly recommend to contrast a report on a given issue on CNN international and CNN domestic. Night and day. I specifically recall an interview with an Afghan woman MP critical of the US on CNN international and then on US domestic.

The CNN international interview was all in all unremarkable, whereas she was savaged by the host on CNN domestic. How dare she be critical! Ingrate!